opinion of project

This project was very very lovely. Except for it was very confusing to me and made my head hurt because I am just awful with technology. I felt like maybe we could have talked about the project more and been given a more clear idea of where we should be at a certain moment.
It was interesting but a little bit vague which through me off a bit and I just kind of fudged through things I didn't understand. Some people are good with technology and some aren't, and I thought the project gave an advantage to people who are.

But overall it was challenging and made me take hold of myself and actually think.

a bit on Tennyson

Lately I've been having strange dreams about this poem and it's author, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tennyson had a pretty harsh childhood that was probubly very dark and sad. His father suffered from depression and he spent only a few unhappy years at school before he went home to continue his schooling. He began to write at a young age and then went to cambridge. When his best friend Arthur hallam died suddenly, he was devestated, and wrote a memorium that took 17 years. Among the poems he wrote at that time, was the lady of shalott. A story about death and sorrow, that is not unlike a fairytale. I think when people reach have great calamities and feel great despair, they turn back to their childhood and simple things, instead of the vague and complicated adult world that we create.

His is quite a tragic story.

He marries a woman named Emily, and then lives pretty peacefully for the rest of his life, writing what is said to be some of his best poetry. He found his peace and has a happy ending.

Question

I have a question Ms. Hodge. You said that I should read the poem (the lady of shalott), but the problem is, that it is really long. It takes me five minutes to read it and that is beyond the attention span of many. So I was thinking that I could shorten it a bit. Just cut out some of the parts that aren't completely nessecary. But I also don't wan't to mess with such a beautiful poem. What do you think I should do?

picture I will compare with

These are two pictures that I will compare my peice to . All three are of the lady of shalott but they are very diffrent.

The lady of shalott poem

am having trouble posting the poem. I am quite technologily deprived so I was wondering something Ms. Hodge: When I copy and paste, the text shows up right below the text box below a blue line. It dosen't show up when I post it, and it will not copy in the text box. I bit of help would be appreciated!

French art

Something about french art is really intriguing. I am playing a french peice on the piano right now, and I've been playing it for months and I still don't feel done. It is hard to explain. Same with this book. The illustrations have enchanted me since I was a little girl. Something about the light. Technically this was painted by a French-Canadian artist, but that adds a rugged touch. Anyway, I really really like this peice and the poem that inspired it is very very metaphorical and also a beautiful and haunting fairy tale, so it works.

Well now I think I have narrowed my choices down to two paintings. Lucretia and an illustration from one of my favorite books. It is a illustrated version of, "The lady of Shalott" which is one of my favorite poems in the whole world. It is by Geneviève Côté. I think I am leaning towards the Geneviève Côté painting.